Social Priorities

November 15, 2002

An article in the Oct. 19 paper stated the space shuttle Atlantis was "back from a 4.5 million-mile jaunt into space. The astronauts fitted a $390 million girder to the framework." (I wonder what the framework cost?) In the same section of the newspaper was an article stating that 46 million Social Security recipients would receive a mere 1.4 percent increase in January, which is the smallest ever increase.

Do we need to get our priorities straight?

How about the 70- and 80-year-olds who fought for our liberty in World War II. Will they be added to the ever-growing homeless on the street?

How do we pay our debt to them? Apparently, the government says, "We don't."